NOTE: Before reading this blog, I highly recommend you first read The Dempster Highway Experience by MFI published September 1, 2024. Her blog helps put this one in proper perspective. We were on the final leg of the Dempster Highway, which ended in Inuvik, NT (population 3,137). The terrain became heavily dotted with ponds, lakes,…
NOTE: Before reading this blog, I highly recommend you first read The Dempster Highway Experience by MFI published August 27, 2024. Her blog helps put this one in proper perspective. Our next leg was 109 miles to Eagle Plains (population 8-9 depending) and a 1-night stay at “an oasis in the wilderness” according to The…
MFI has done all the driving since we began our RV adventure in September 2019. It was her choice, since she readily admitted to being a lousy passenger, and she credited me with being a better navigator. That being the case, she endured much more stress from driving than me (sitting, as I did, in…
Our final stop, before driving the Dempster Highway north to the Arctic Ocean, was Dawson City, YT (population 1,557). From Tok, we drove a short distance on the Alaska Highway (AK 2), turned onto the Taylor Highway (AK 5) to Jack Wade, AK, then proceeded onto the Top of the World Highway, which ended at the…
Before leaving Red Eagle Lodge, Richard Denny mentioned several times that the Tok Cutoff Highway (AK 1) had shifted 17 feet during the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake. He told us the exact mile marker, so we wouldn’t miss it, and sure enough, it was eactly where he had indicated. Truthfully, the shift didn’t appear to…
The distance from Anchorage to Tok was simply too far to squeeze into a day’s drive. According to RV Trip Wizard, our only interim-stop option was Red Eagle Lodge in Chistochina (population 60). This lodge was a throw back to Alaska’s roadhouse system, when in the late 19th early 20th centuries entrepeneurs built them to…
The Harding Icefield was an ice cap sitting atop the Kenai (Key’-nigh) Mountains, which formed Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula 80 miles due south of Anchorage on the Gulf of Alaska. This ice cap was the largest of the four remaining icefields lying solely in the United States, and covered 700 square miles, or 1,100 square miles…
On the north side of the Whittier Tunnel, we took the Portage Glacier Highway north to Sterling Highway (AK 1), hung a left to the Seward Highway (AK 9), and finally another left on AK 9 which terminated at the southern end of Seward. We took a rest stop along Portage Lake for more glacier…
The distance to our next campground near Palmer, AK (population 7,456) was just under 200 miles. We drove south on Parks Highway (AK 3) until in intersected with Glenn Highway (AK 1) just past Wasilla (population 10,838), about 40 minutes drive northeast of Anchorage. We learned, while touring Denali National Park, that the best views…
The drive from Fairbanks to our campsite near the Denali Park entrance was only 130 miles. We crossed the Alaskan Inrterior and once again were in awe of the magnificent scenery. We considered ourselves so fortunate to have such clear weather for taking pictures. Only two of the six Denali Park campgrounds were open for…
